OCCULT CHEMISTRY

By EMMA RAMIREZ

CONTENTS THE OCCULT ROOTS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION WHAT IS ESOTERICISM? DOES IT EXIST? HOW CAN IT BE UNDERSTOOD? THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, FOLKLORE STUDIES, AND THE OCCULT FIELD IN GREAT BRITAIN (1870–1914): SOME OBSERVATIONS ON COMPETITION AND CAIN-ABEL CONFLICTS MAGNETISM, SPIRITUALISM, AND THE ACADEMY: THE CASE OF NEES VON ESENBECK, PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES LEOPOLDINA (1818–1858) ACADEMIC STUDY OF KABBALAH AND OCCULTIST KABBALAH TANTRA AS EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE IN THE WORKS OF JOHN WOODROFFE A COMMON CORE OF THEOSOPHY IN CELTIC MYTH, YOGA, AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM: WALTER Y EVANS-WENTZ’ AND THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION PAUL MASSON-OURSEL (1882–1956): INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY THE ANCIENT PROCESSIONAL STREET OF BABYLON AT THE PERGAMONMUSEUM BERLIN: WALTER ANDRAE’S RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS ANTHROPOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND